Some thoughts on day 1

Jedrzej Polak jedpolak at mac.com
Sat Sep 15 03:07:12 CDT 2001


Yeah, I don't doubt your source is right (actually, the problem of financing
the Base is so ridiculously complex that we may soon find out that the
majority of Western democracies were involved in sponsoring Islamic
fundamentalists). My source is  Ms. Antoine Steir, editor-in-chief of
"Cahiers de L'Orient", who was interviewed by Polish daily "Gazeta
Wyborcza".

JP

> From: Arne Herløv Petersen <herlahp at inet.uni2.dk>
> Reply-To: herlahp at inet.uni2.dk
> Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 00:31:30 +0200
> To: Jedrzej Polak <jedpolak at mac.com>
> Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
> Subject: Re: Some thoughts on day 1
> 
> Jedrzej Polak wrote:
>> 
>> Arne writes:
>> 
>>> Apparently this fortress was built for American money and with American
>>> technical assistance.
>> 
>> Actually, you might be wrong. While the U.S. of A. did support bin Laden
>> operations while he was recruiting volunteers in Peshawar back in the 80s,
>> the Base is financed with funds from a number of legal sources, e.g.
>> 
>> 
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> My source is 
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> http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2001/09/13/binladen-moved.htm




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